wairua
/ˈwʌɪruːə/noun (plural wairuas or same) NZ
The spirit or the soul: participants who stopped smoking confirmed a positive effect on their wairua...
- In retrospect, they could see how smoking had clouded their wairua "like a fog".
- I may not have Maori blood in me, but the spirit —wairua—of New Zealand is in me.
- The survival of the wairua was never assured.
Origin
Early 19th century: Maori.
- remote
- remote control
- remote-controlled
- remote controller
- remoted
- remote flowered
- remote locking
- remotely
- remoteness
- remote sensing
- remote sensor
- remote viewer
- remote viewing
- focal point
- focal surface
- Foch, Ferdinand
- fo'c'sle
- focus
- focused
- focuser
- focus group
- focus-grouped
- focus-grouping
- focus puller
- focussed